Star Wars Cast and Crew: Who’s Going to SDCC?

SDCCTrailer or no trailerStar Wars is set to make a splash at the San Diego Comic Con this Friday. There have been two recent confirmations about who will be attending (both related to Rogue One), so now would be a good time to look over who we know will be there, who won’t, and a few guesses for good measure.

 

What we know so far are that the three biggest names in the crew of The Force AwakensJ. J. Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy, and Lawrence Kasdan – are going to be at the main panel at Hall H. Since this is in fact a comic book convention, many writers and illustrators of various Star Wars comics will be at the event, along with the authors of several new Star Wars books. But something that’s just come to our attention are a few tweets that confirm that both the original scriptwriter for Rogue One (Gary Whitta) and the man revising the screenplay (Chris Weitz) are also attending the convention.

 

 

Bear in mind that this does not confirm that they will show up at Hall H, but it does make it seem a little more likely that Rogue One might have a limited presence at the panel. Now, it’s time to look at the actors.

 

There’s been some buzz that some of the “Special Guests” at the panel will be cast members who haven’t talked a lot about their characters previously -with this in mind, Adam Driver is a particularly likely guess. One person who we know won’t make an appearance at the event is Lupita Nyong’o. Nyong’o is currently doing charity work in Kenya, where her parents were born. I initially expected Nyong’o to make an appearance – and mistakenly wrote such a guess in another article – until someone on the Twittersphere was kind enough to correct me:

 

 

And hey, there’s my next point! John Boyega is apparently going to be there according to discussions around the Star Wars blogging watercooler. Not too surprising considering that he’s the lead male of the film. From here, I’m guessing that it’s not too much of a stretch to imagine that Daisy Ridley and Oscar Isaac could be at SDCC as well.      

 


Speaking of Oscar Isaac, while no announcement has been made about his presence or absence at Comic Con, Fox’s superhero panel features information on X-Men: Apocalypse, which might warrant an appearance from him since he is the title villain. Since this is a Fox production, Simon Kinberg (a producer behind Rebels who is attached to at least one of the forthcoming Star Wars Anthology movies) has also been confirmed to be there. Would-be Anthology director Josh Trank is also supposed to appear alongside Kinberg, but after his no-show at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim, his attendance record is a little spotty. An actress who is already going to be at Comic Con is Gwendoline Christie, who will be present for the Game Of Thrones panel scant hours before Star Wars steps up to Hall H. Her appearance at this new panel is pretty much assured at this point.

 

Last but not least, we ran into a comment on one of our articles stating something interesting on Harrison Ford:

 

Harrison Ford is scheduled to be in San Diego, [Thursday] and leaving late Friday. Not sure if this is public knowledge cause I don’t follow all this news daily. However UTA has him down as being “off call” and in SD on Friday.

 

I’m not quite sure what to make of that, but if Harrison Ford is apparently at San Diego for a day, might it be possible that he could slip into Comic Con? If I’m remembering correctly, someone hosting some of the panels that I attended at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim stated that Harrison Ford really wanted to attend, but he couldn’t due to his untimely hospitalization after his plane crash. SDCC sounds like the closest and most easy opportunity to make up for such an unfortunate absence. Take the comment’s information with a grain of salt, but the possibility could be there.

 

Right now, it seems that it’s safe to say that John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, and Gwendoline Christie will surely be joining J. J. Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy, and Lawrence Kasdan at the Hall H presentation, with a few more people (including Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac, among others) possibly standing by. Plus, we now know that Gary Whitta and Chris Weitz will at least be hanging around the convention. In any case, SDCC is bound to be a host to a lot of new information, and we can’t wait to share it with you all as it breaks!

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

Grant Davis (Pomojema)

Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

46 thoughts on “Star Wars Cast and Crew: Who’s Going to SDCC?

  • July 8, 2015 at 11:07 am
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    I’m sure the event will be swell, but with no trailer or Lupita, I must admit my interest has lessened a bit.

    • July 8, 2015 at 1:11 pm
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      oh well, never mind eh, we live another day. i hope you get over this major setback in your life

  • July 8, 2015 at 11:39 am
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    Ok so no new trailer, but maybe they could launch the official movie poster, so we then have an image of the new stars wars looks like instead of the one sheet poster thats currently being used. Surely thats not going to give to much away at this stage.

  • July 8, 2015 at 12:04 pm
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    Harrison Ford should be there. This is his movie.

  • July 8, 2015 at 12:50 pm
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    KK also did say at the TFA panel that Ford would be pretty active during the marketing of this movie. Or something close to that.

  • July 8, 2015 at 1:23 pm
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    Ugh…anyone else completely bored with Star Wars now? I blame the late release date, I’m fizzled out.

    • July 8, 2015 at 1:44 pm
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      Im not bored with the film, I just feel we really need more footage or at the very least a synopsis or poster. I think the marketing its going to be insane after D23. I am bored of the mindless speculation though.

    • July 8, 2015 at 1:46 pm
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      Same. It’s to the point I’m not interested in seeing the movie, at least until it’s free rental time at redbox. I feel like I’m suffering from over exposure with little pay off.

      • July 8, 2015 at 2:41 pm
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        Surely this is a bad website to go on if your bored of overexposure? Which in my opinion hasn’t even begun yet , when we’ve only had teasers, no full trailer, no synopsis and not even an officially released poster.

        • July 8, 2015 at 2:45 pm
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          No…it has begun, lingered, and became the annoying family member who won’t leave.

        • July 8, 2015 at 2:50 pm
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          On the contrary, it provides the perfect venue to vent disillusion, aka I’m bored of it too.

      • July 8, 2015 at 2:43 pm
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        I’m with ya there. Too expensive to go see a movie nowadays. If me and my husband go it would be like buying the movie twice. Cinema prices are far too expensive. Not worth the it anymore, we would rather have the money to go out to eat. I will rent it and if I like it, which I’m not sure of anymore, I’ll buy it, I don’t want to repeat the mistake of when I bought the new trilogy without watching them—they are all collecting dust on the shelf and anything JJ does I’m always wary of purchasing.

        • July 8, 2015 at 3:33 pm
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          This comment makes no sense!

          • July 8, 2015 at 4:18 pm
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            Aw, are you illiterate or unable to seperate points from a post, allow me to assist.

            – Going to the movies cost too much for couples and families.

            – Cheaper to rent from Redbox and purchase it if you like it.

            – Lucas’ newer trilogy was suck and waste of money.

            – JJ Abrams killed Star Trek.

            Does it make sense now?

          • July 8, 2015 at 4:31 pm
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            i lawled, 😉 and your name, even better. Some people are too specific and unable to read unless you are 100% specific. In today’s society we call those types “special,” but prior to the 1990’s we called them “retarded,” but that’s no longer PC.

          • July 8, 2015 at 4:32 pm
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            All I really hear is that someone is too poor to go to the movies.

            [and cut the PT hating/bashing out; it’s gotten annoying hearing this crap over and over again from irrational and delusional PT haters/bashers who have misguided feelings of nostalgia and act like fear-of-change and out-of-touch-with-society conservative Republicans]

            Also, let me remind you that this comment came from a woman9and we all know that their opinions of SW or any other movie franchise (sci-fi, action, adventure, etc.) are irrelevant and non-sensical. In other words, their opinions pretty much don’t matter, especially from women who are of Generation X or older, since females’ taste in movies such as these will be very much off-base to begin with (since they don’t know much of these movies’ genres to begin with).

          • July 8, 2015 at 4:37 pm
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            Ima dude and I think JJ killed Star Trek, especially holds true to anyone who knew anything about it, Hating and bashing, but you single out a woman and are so far out of touch with the real world you can’t understand the concept of people not being able to afford the extreme prices of the cinema today? You’re a whack mack, nuff said.

          • July 8, 2015 at 4:41 pm
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            You’re the whack mack actually; all I hear from you is an excuse for you trying to justify your poorness.

            Hope you don’t run out of welfare funds before the month ends (it must suck scraping by in life financially).

          • July 8, 2015 at 4:44 pm
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            Uhok… Karma’s a bitch. 😉

          • July 8, 2015 at 5:17 pm
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            ooooh, I’m so scared! I’m shaking right at this moment….

          • July 8, 2015 at 6:26 pm
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            He speaks the truth, but only us “old” people know that right? Karma does come back on you and more often than not in the manner which you brought it on yourself to begin with.

          • July 8, 2015 at 4:49 pm
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            So, wait…women over 30 don’t have taste in Sci-fi? All of the best sic-fi came out in my generation and prior. Everything after that has been reboot piddle made for paper deep, self-involved, brainwashed children.

          • July 8, 2015 at 5:16 pm
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            Yeah, your credibly with regards to your opinions in the sci-fi genre is zero to nil by admitting you’re a woman who’s over 30.

            Furthermore, it doesn’t matter what people of your generation and older think about movies anymore. The Millennial generation is where it’s at right now, that’s the primary target of companies now (that’s where the buying power has been shifting towards) so what Gen X’ers and older folks think is no longer relevant when it comes to the entertainment industry since you older folks aren’t the target anymore.

            Lastly, “all of the best sci-fi came out in my generation and prior” is just your opinion but again, it doesn’t matter anymore since you’re from an irrelevant generation.

          • July 8, 2015 at 6:14 pm
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            Actually, your data is old. Baby boomers and milennials have been where the buying power is but as Baby Boomers retire and Gen Xers move into their positions and millennials began to have families and saving money for large purchases such as a home, the market will shift back to Gen Xers and it will be their children, raised with the Gen X mentality that will take over the market as the youth base. To add, economist predict due to the lavish spending habits of the milennials including a current unstable economical future for America, they will be the first generation in 100 years to have more debt to income in their middle-age to senior-age making them unimportant from a marketing standpoint. Since you want to make a SW forum an economic and marketing debate. Enjoy it while it last.

            Also, it’s a known fact that ALL the best science fiction came from the 1950’s – 1990’s. To deny it shows that what everyone has posted about you is accurate. You shouldn’t eat paint chips.

          • July 9, 2015 at 5:24 am
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            I’m a Milennial and I think it sucks that a poodoo like you goes around “speaking for all of us”. You don’t, so stop doing it.

            By the way, the prequel trilogy was good… when I was 5! Now it’s just sad and pathetic. Kind of like you.

      • July 8, 2015 at 8:56 pm
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        Please. You’ll be in line first day it opens. Not one of us is waiting for the DVD rental.

      • July 9, 2015 at 3:30 am
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        Yes i feel like it’s sucking us dry of our love for Star Wars. It’s like every little stupid rumor update or tweet of some nobody makes it less and less fun. Can we just fucking see something more than two teasers. The way they handle the marketing is bullshit. We been waiting long enough. I’m going to San Diego but don’t have tickets gonna try to see what I can. I been in before and it’s nothing that u don’t get to see in the next few days. But seeing the cast is awesome. I saw mark hamill signing autographs and was in awe just knowing that’s Luke!!

    • July 8, 2015 at 1:51 pm
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      Messa Bored.

      • July 8, 2015 at 8:58 pm
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        None of you are bored. Just impatient.

    • July 8, 2015 at 1:56 pm
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      I’m bored with Disney in general…. Is that bad? Just too much of too much…….

      • July 8, 2015 at 3:28 pm
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        It’s like a $5 hooker in a $10,000 wedding dress. :). But, yeah I agree, we didn’t even see Avengers 2, just read it on wiki and was like meh, glad we didn’t waste the money. I’ve seen literally 5 years of my life’s time of movies, so I’m hard to please at this point. I’m not some easily impressed teeny or young adult, I require well written, original substance and emotional depth in my movies, which is becoming more and more exceedingly rare in this time. Maybe if the movie industry allowed legitimate new talent enter in the business instead of friends and family with similar views, something better would happen, and they would make even more money, but no. Can’t mess with the master agenda.

        • July 8, 2015 at 3:36 pm
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          Welcome to 2015!

          Also, movies are being geared more and more towards Millenials because the movie industry recognizes their worth as consumers and are the ones that make or break films financially (that’s where the measure of success comes from). In other words, the buying power matters most for this generation as opposed to the buying power from older generations.

          • July 8, 2015 at 3:41 pm
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            Boo! And, I thought us Gen Xers were still special. 🙁

          • July 8, 2015 at 4:34 pm
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            Sorry, not so much anymore, and it’ll be more evident in the years to come as to how Gen X’ers aren’t mattering much anymore to the entertainment industry.

    • July 8, 2015 at 8:49 pm
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      Late release date? The turnaround between the announcement of this movie and when it will be in theaters is over a half-a-year less than any of the previous movies. How quickly did you expect them to get this made?

    • July 9, 2015 at 7:22 am
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      As I am reading there are 38 likes to being bored with Star Wars topic!? Yet you are all here where people are discussing 2015 SDCC’s itinerary!? THE BIG NEWS NO TRAILER beyond reminiscences of trailers 1 (NOVEMBER OF 2014) and 2 (APRIL OF 2015) six months apart!? Trailer 3 for mid-October of 2015 (six-month trailer theory) as final one before movie TFA, 2 months later! I want YouTube video reviewers to explain more questions answered from trying to understand parts in first two trailers (for example why a gravel voice of, “My father has it … My sister has it …” and why this can’t be Luke Skywalker because he saw his father’s death and spiritual life-force join to Ben Kenobi and Yoda’s)! We need them to explain what we should be interpreting in the trailers, as moviegoers; because, we might be confused with TFA point, may as well skip seeing it at movie theatres and wait for Blue-Ray with explanation featurettes! BECAUSE! I DON’T WANT OTHER PEOPLE’S VIEWS LIKE MESSAGE BOARD PEOPLE CLOUDING MY MIND LIKE THE SITH DID WITH PREQUELS YODA! 🙁

    • July 10, 2015 at 6:50 am
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      Take some aderal and get over your ADHD. You know you’ll be right in line with the rest of us come December, and excited as hell.

  • July 8, 2015 at 2:26 pm
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    I’m bored with Domhnall as General.

  • July 8, 2015 at 2:41 pm
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    “Force Friday September 4” picture in Comic Con 2015!! Date of new trailer?

    • July 8, 2015 at 9:00 pm
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      No. Force Friday is when all the new toys get put on on the shelves. I think?

      • July 9, 2015 at 2:45 am
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        Yep.

  • July 8, 2015 at 2:51 pm
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    I’m still very much looking forward to the Movie(s)… but I’m over all the “Rumors” and so called “speculations”. All the moaning and
    bitching / whining by the people in these forums the last few days has also left me with a sour taste.
    I’m just gonna relax and wait for December 18th to roll around and then enjoy the film.

  • July 8, 2015 at 4:41 pm
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    If honest excited about the new movie but its hard to wait another 6 months’as an old fan maybe its wrong to go back to Luke and Han again’they won the war and life went on and we all moved on happy with the ending it was perfect.i enjoyed the last 3 movies seems unpopular to say that now’for me attack of the clones was good and revenge of the sith very good’of course episode 1 was weak with some ok parts I still enjoyed.will go to see for sure but its really going to be a letdown in some ways seeing our favorites so aged and maybe dieing during this movie.but iam a fan near 40 years bring it on.

  • July 8, 2015 at 4:59 pm
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    If you people are bored of star wars, why are you visiting a Star Wars site? YOU ARE ALL BANTHA FODDER!!! WE ARE GETTING A NEW STAR WARS MOVIE AND YOU COMPLAIN? WOWZERZ!!!!

    • July 8, 2015 at 6:20 pm
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      As someone posted previously, it provides the perfect venue to vent disillusion.

  • July 8, 2015 at 5:02 pm
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    Ewan McGregor will show up and bring down the house.

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